A plate of homemade wishes …

Ever since I wrote the Bowl Cut Hall of Fame post yesterday afternoon and name-dropped Adam Rich, I’ve had this song stuck in my head. And now it’s in yours. I sincerely apologize — mostly I just didn’t want to suffer alone.

It’s hard to tell whether the “Eight is Enough” theme (above, and in the opening credits here) is the best or worst TV theme song ever. I only know that it’s one or the other.

Below are a few more thoughts about what you’ve just seen …

— Damn, that Grant Goodeve was dreamy. With apologies to Joannie, David was definitely the lowest maintenance of the “Eight is Enough” kids. (If nothing else, he gets some kind of award for using his van to help someone move twice every episode.) If I ever write a book, I want Goodeve to narrate the book-on-tape version.

— I didn’t see this episode, but I can tell you exactly what happened in the first 55 minutes. (Assuming this is the last 5.) Joannie and Mary got in a fight about something, and are making up. Nancy the little tramp had some kind of crisis involving a rich and/or old guy she was dating. And while Nicholas had nine adults in the house — 10 or 11 if Janet or Merle were around — no one would pay attention to him. (Somebody needed to call CPS on these people.)

— Do you get the impression that Tommy’s magic show didn’t go well? Tommy always was a whiny little baby. I never understood why they didn’t send his ass to military school during the first season. (Say what you want about Willie Aames as an actor, but the dude had the sulking thing down.)

— If you think that I’ve already learned this on the guitar, and plan on singing it to my kids during bedtime, then you seriously know me too well.

— “It’s a plate of homemade wishes, on the kitchen windowsill.” That’s a line that could only be written in the year 1979.

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Goodeve should get half his Oscar, too.

— I hope Javier Bardem in “No Country for Old Men” paid Grant Goodeve a royalty.

— One little AP Stylebook pet peeve. The banner at the end reads “1st Annual Benefit Variety Show for the Charles Street School.” If it’s not “2nd Annual” or later, then it’s just the first. So there.

— What’s going on with the clown kid and the dude in the priest costume? I mean seriously, WTF?